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English
Noun
truceman (plural trucemen)
- (archaic) Alternative form of truchman
- 1589, Robert Greene, Menaphon’s Eclogue in Menaphon, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814, p. 63,
- Seld speaketh Love, but sighs his secret pains;
- Tears are his trucemen, words do make him tremble:
- How sweet is love to them that can dissemble,
- In thoughts and looks, till they have reap’d the gains!
- 1593, Michael Drayton, The Legend of Piers Gaveston, cited in J. Payne Collier (editor), Illustrations of Early English Poetry, Volume 4, 1870, p. 163,
- O Hope! how cunning with our cares to gloze
- Griefes breathing poynt, the truceman to desire,
- The rest in sighes, the very thoughts repose;
- As thou art milde, oh! wert thou not a lier?
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